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Listen • 2:38 Denver typically auctions off its excess bison to avoid overgrazing, but there was still an excess after this year s auction. So, the city decided to return bison to their native habitats on tribal land. Fourteen American bison headed to their new homes on native land this month. Indigenous tribes received the bison from Denver Parks and Recreation as a form of reparations, the first gift in a 10-year ordinance to donate surplus bison that will also go toward tribal conservation efforts. The bison came from the department s two conservation herds that descended from a handful of historic Yellowstone bison. Denver typically auctions off its surplus bison to avoid overgrazing, but there was still an excess after this year s auction in March.

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